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Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on March 21, 2004, 04:24:00 PM

They're looking strong and I'm anxious for Tuesday's game against the Lightning.  Tampa Bay seems to be in a bit of slump and it would all the more nice to kick them while they're down and show them who's boss in the East.  The two Ottawa games coming up should be some very high intensity hockey.  With a bit of luck I expect the Leafs to come out top in the Northeast division.  And if they beat Tampa Bay I think they have what it takes to get to the cup series.

Unfortunately I cannot watch any of the games - being a leafs fan living in the US sucks - but I'll be listening to them on the NHL radio feeds.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Untouchable on March 22, 2004, 12:46:00 PM

leafs will be murdered by the redwings hahaha

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on March 22, 2004, 02:18:00 PM

QUOTE (Untouchable @ Mar 22 2004, 10:46 PM)

leafs will be murdered bu the redwings hahaha

I'm only gonna worry about the Redwings when the Leafs get to them.  Detroit's won the cup too many time already, it's the Leafs turn this year.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: fin1581 on March 22, 2004, 05:44:00 PM

Sabres fan here...but Leafs vs. Sabres games are awesome!

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Untouchable on March 22, 2004, 06:21:00 PM

QUOTE

falser Posted on Mar 23 2004, 12:18 AM I'm only gonna worry about the Redwings when the Leafs get to them. Detroit's won the cup too many time already, it's the Leafs turn this year.

leafs and flyers are the only ones that have a chance to meet the wings in the stanley finals  

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on March 24, 2004, 09:50:00 AM

7-2 loss - ouch.  That is embarrassing actually.  I had hoped they'd be stronger heading into the playoffs.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: issues_i3oy on March 25, 2004, 04:09:00 PM

They're making up for that loss as we speak. They're kicking the bruins ass right now.

GO LEAFS GO!!!

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: HSDEMONZ on March 25, 2004, 04:37:00 PM

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on March 25, 2004, 05:20:00 PM

That's exactly what they needed, a hard throwdown.  Boston knows who they have to beat for the cup and soon Ottawa will too.  I read there's a big controversy about the upcoming Ottawa games because they banned Leafs jerseys unless the wearer brings a can of food - must be really annoying for them to see more blue jerseys in the stands than their own team

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: HSDEMONZ on March 26, 2004, 02:09:00 AM

TORONTO 3
BOSTON 0

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Spency234 on March 26, 2004, 03:43:00 AM

Woohoo that was a HUGE game!

Philly lost to the Islanders too.

Another biggie coming up tomorrow vs Ottawa.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: chilin_dude on March 26, 2004, 08:34:00 AM

Damn!!!! I thought this was a decent thread for a change... about LEEDS United football club, but no!!! It had to be a similar title but it wasn't about good ol' football

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Arvarden on March 26, 2004, 08:56:00 AM

GO WBA!!!!




\0/

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: chilin_dude on March 26, 2004, 09:01:00 AM

QUOTE (Arvarden @ Mar 26 2004, 06:56 PM)

GO WBA!!!! \0/

West bromich Albion?

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Arvarden on March 26, 2004, 06:47:00 PM

QUOTE (chilin_dude @ Mar 26 2004, 07:01 PM)

West bromich Albion?

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Spency234 on March 30, 2004, 07:17:00 AM

Leafs - 4
Thrashers - 2

2 more games to go!!

Who would all you Leaf fans like to see them matched up with in the first round??  Personally I want Montreal because my coworker is a huge Habs fan and it would be fun.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on March 30, 2004, 08:33:00 AM

I don't want them to be matched up with a canadian team in the first round only cause I want Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal to be in the east semifinals.  I'd want it to be Toronto vs Montreal, Ottawa vs Tampa Bay.  And I want Ottawa to win so that the Leafs can bring the smackdown on them even more beautifully.

Only a week to go before the playoffs!!

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Spency234 on March 30, 2004, 09:41:00 AM

QUOTE (xbox beat box @ Mar 30 2004, 02:37 PM)

Go Sens go...anybody going to the sens game on Saturday? I will be there to watch the sens kick the piss out of the gay leaf blowers...too bad for Nolan, his boyfriend must be pissed.

Just quoting this for future reference.

So you can't edit it.

You are calling the Leafs gay when your allstar has the longest golden gayest hair I have ever seen!  There are some GREAT rivalries in the East I love it.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: xbox beat box on March 30, 2004, 09:52:00 AM

I know I know..I call him Goldielocks.
In the Ottawa Sun yesterday there was a poll for Playoff haircut for Alfie...I think he should go the Joe Dirt mullet look.....I cant believe his wife doesnt make him cut it.
He is gay too!
I sercretly want Prusek to play the rest of the year out, Lalime is such a pussy....I am just as critical of the Sens as I am the Leafs.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: mamajo on March 31, 2004, 12:53:00 PM

 GO LEAFS GO!

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 02, 2004, 06:30:00 PM

Whoohoo!  They shutout the Sabres 2-0.  If they beat Ottawa on Saturday they'll be first in the Northeast!!  Oh man that's gonna be a good game and a great way to end the regular season.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: issues_i3oy on April 02, 2004, 07:15:00 PM

Hell ya. What a game. We really creamed Buffalo;)

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: fin1581 on April 02, 2004, 09:17:00 PM

QUOTE (issues_i3oy @ Apr 3 2004, 05:15 AM)

Hell ya. What a game. We really creamed Buffalo;)

I wouldnt say they creamed my Sabres but, yea, they beat them and played a really good game...I guess I am rooting for Toronto in the playoffs for the third straight year now lol

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 03, 2004, 12:20:00 PM

Oops, I calculated wrong - I didn't realize Boston had an extra game to go.  In order for Toronto to finish first in the NE they must kick Ottawa's teeth in tonight, and Boston, who lost today against New Jersey, must lose to them again on Sunday.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 04, 2004, 06:06:00 AM

6-0 Leafs.  A tremendously convincing way to end the season.  That is why I love my team.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: issues_i3oy on April 04, 2004, 04:24:00 PM

We'll Boston won. Toronto finishes 2nd in their division. Looks like we're facing the Ottawa Senators. GO LEAFS GO!!!

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 05, 2004, 06:31:00 AM

Hehe, after that last game the Sens will probably be changing their poopy pants every hour up until game time.  I had to laugh about the Domi hit to Bondra - you can tell every player on Ottawa would just love to take him out.

Unless some kind of miracle/disaster happens, this'll probably be the results of the first round:
TAMPA BAY over NY ISLANDERS (cuz TB is best in the East)
BOSTON over MONTREAL  (cuz the Habs have sucked recently)
NEW JERSEY over PHILADELPHIA  (cuz NJ has Brodeur)
TORONTO over OTTAWA  (cuz the Leafs rock)

The next round should be more interesting.  Personally I'd like to see NJ/TO for the east finals.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: mamajo on April 06, 2004, 03:33:00 PM

The results are in:
Maggie the monkey picks the LEAFS.

All hail maggie the monkey! woot!11!!1!!!1!!!!!

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: HSDEMONZ on April 06, 2004, 03:37:00 PM

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: BenJeremy on April 08, 2004, 06:28:00 PM

Heh heh... sorry, but with Belfour, you won't get past the Red Wings.


GO WINGS!!

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 09, 2004, 04:32:00 AM

Sens 4
Leafs 2

Ok well the Sens have drawn first blood.  They were doing good until they lost it on the power play.   But I'm not going to hang my head in shame cause it ain't over yet, not by a longshot.

I swear all these fans of other teams better pray the Leafs don't win... cause if they do they'll NEVER hear the end of it.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: HSDEMONZ on April 10, 2004, 02:46:00 AM

Yah.. that game did hurt.. and blew away my SWEEP prediction.

Hopefully.. tonight's game will even it up...

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 11, 2004, 06:39:00 AM

There was absolutely no way the Sens were going to win that game, and I think they knew it.  The Leafs got Klee and Tucker back in their lineup too.  If Renberg comes back soon they'll be at (nearly) 100% strength for the first time all year.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 12, 2004, 05:19:00 PM

Capital Punishment Round 3



Eddie, we are not worthy.  He is nothing short of phenomenal!!!

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: HSDEMONZ on April 13, 2004, 01:40:00 PM

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Spency234 on April 14, 2004, 06:57:00 AM

QUOTE (xbox beat box @ Apr 14 2004, 10:30 AM)

We dont want you here in Ottawa...stay home and beat your wife, or shoot somebody with your gun.

 

What are you talking about?  A little bitter are we??  

TO does not have a bad crime rate at all considering how big of a city it is.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: xbox beat box on April 14, 2004, 08:01:00 AM

QUOTE (Spency234 @ Apr 14 2004, 03:57 PM)

What are you talking about?  A little bitter are we??   TO does not have a bad crime rate at all considering how big of a city it is.

Very bitter!

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 14, 2004, 09:04:00 AM

beatbox, nobody here will insult you personally.  You should show the same respect as this is a hockey thread, not a flame thread.  Feel free to make fun of the Leafs - although it won't matter much by Friday when they finish the Sens off.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: mamajo on April 14, 2004, 10:23:00 AM

"3 Cheers For Ottawa"

Here's a little story
About a hockey team
Who just may win the Stanley Cup
But only in their dreams

The team is from Ottawa
The Senators is their name
They're soon to be inducted in the golfing hall of fame

They think they'll take our Leafers
Now there's a funny joke
Cuz every year at playoff time
The Senators always choke

So three cheers for Ottawa
A real team they are nottawa
They can give all that they've gottawa
But the Stanley Cup will never go to Ottawa

Ottawa has the parliaments
And MPs in the news
And it's kind of like their hockey team
They talk a lot but don't produce

They're not the smartest either
I really have to say
When the capital of our country
Spells Canada with a K

Three cheers for Ottawa
They think they have a shottawa
But they must be smoking pottawa
Cuz the Stanley Cup will never go to Ottawa

You better press your plaid pants
It's that time once again
To hear that familiar Ottawa Senators saying
Tee off is at 10

So get ready for the crying
Take out your handkerchiefs
You're about to get your ass kicked by the Toronto Maple Leafs

Three cheers for Ottawa
A lesson they'll be taughttawa
Hossa and Havalattawa
Will soon be golfing a lottawa

What the hell else rhymes with Ottawa
Not a whole heck of a lottawa

They're the team we already forgottawa
Cuz the Stanley Cup will never go to Ottawa!

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Spency234 on April 14, 2004, 10:34:00 AM

 



I heard that song on the radio before game 1 and it pumped me up.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: xbox beat box on April 15, 2004, 04:23:00 AM

Well, were all tied up.

Looks like we kicked the shit out of you guys.

All those 35 year olds just cant keep up.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Spency234 on April 15, 2004, 04:46:00 AM

Well you definately made the series more interesting... still not worried about it.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 15, 2004, 05:05:00 AM

I think the Leafs are just toying with them.  You know, get their Stanley hopes all wound up, making them believe they actually have the skillz to beat the Leafs.  Only then to pound them into the ice and make em look like amateurs.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 15, 2004, 08:03:00 AM

Unfortunately I haven't been able to watch any of the Toronto games cause ESPN are a bunch of ass monkeys - but even listening to the games on nhl's internet radio is really exciting.  Thankfully ESPN is showing Friday's Leafs game which I'm totally hyped up for.  It'll be nice if a Canadian team wins, but it'll be that much better if it's Toronto - so many years have gone by without the cup going to Toronto and this is perhaps their best chance yet assuming Sundin isn't out for long.

Having 2 Canadian team matchups is a blessing and a curse.  It knocks out 2 Canadian teams right off the bat - but on the other hand it guarantees at least 2 Canadians teams in the next round.  In the West I'm rooting for Calgary.  And it looks like Montreal will lose Boston - and after Tuesday's retarded loss I think they deserve it.  I swear if Toronto pulled anything like what Kovalev did I'd disown them.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 15, 2004, 09:22:00 AM

They're usually not very descriptive of injuries during the playoffs for obvious reasons, according to ml.com he was walking so it doubt it'll be a long term thing which would be disasterous for the Leafs.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: xbox beat box on April 15, 2004, 09:33:00 AM

I think he will be back, hes pretty tough.
I like watching him play, if he could only get away from Chara.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: xbox beat box on April 16, 2004, 04:45:00 AM

Ok...lets make a deal on that "spency".

If the Sens loose tonight I will never post on this thread again, if the leafs loose, you never post here again?

Do we have a deal?....chicken shit

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Spency234 on April 16, 2004, 06:24:00 AM

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: xbox beat box on April 16, 2004, 06:54:00 AM

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 16, 2004, 07:55:00 AM

How bout this for a bet?

If the Leafs win, beatbox has to become a Leafs fan and cheer them on through the rest of the playoffs.  And if the Sens win, we have to create a new Sens Playoff thread and cheer them on.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 16, 2004, 12:47:00 PM

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 17, 2004, 10:21:00 AM

Ottawa is now 1 punch from a knockout.  Does anyone know what team they'll be playing next?  I think it is Philly (assuming they win) but I'm not sure.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 17, 2004, 05:20:00 PM

Ah I gotcha.  Boston just lost, and the way Montreal's playing Boston is going to lose again on Monday.  The Leafs did kinda poor against both Philly and TB during the regular season and both those teams are looking solid.  Either way it goes it's not going to be an easy 2nd round - they'll need our full support and they'll get it!

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 18, 2004, 06:45:00 PM

Leafs 1
Sens 2

Ouch.  I was totally expecting them to come away with that one.  Onto game 7.  Still not worried though.  They're going to watch the tapes and see that playing an all defensive game isn't enough.  All eyes will be on Toronto on Tuesday.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Spency234 on April 19, 2004, 04:33:00 PM

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 20, 2004, 04:18:00 AM

Not really a Habs fan, but I was very impressed with them last night.  After the poor start in the series, and rather questionable/stupid play (*cough* Ribero *cough* Kovalev) they turned their game around and played some great hockey.  I'm looking forward to watching them in the next round.  It would be cool to see the Leafs/Habs for the Eastern finals.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: HSDEMONZ on April 20, 2004, 06:48:00 AM

Toronto 3
Sens 2

(please god...)

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 20, 2004, 04:56:00 PM

Leafs 4
Senators 1

Toronto wins series 4-3



I didn't lose confidence for a second.  I'll admit though Ottawa played very well - if the Sens had Belfour the outcome would have been very different.  Ottawa played the puck much better, they were faster, they made more shots on goal... but in the end the Leafs just played smarter and took advantage of Ottawa's mistakes.

Go Leafs!

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: mamajo on April 22, 2004, 10:44:00 AM

LEAFS MEDIA PREDICTIONS
Neil Smith, TSN
Flyers in 5
Elliotte Friedman, CBC
Flyers in 6
Bob McCown, FAN 590
Flyers in 6
Bill Watters, MOJO 640
Leafs in 6
Gord Stellick, Sportsnet
Flyers in 6
Nick Kypreos, Sportsnet
Flyers in 7
Pierre McGuire, TSN
Flyers
Dave Hodge, TSN
Leafs
Gino Reda, TSN
Flyers
Gord Miller, TSN
Flyers
Bob McKenzie, TSN
Flyers
Maggie the Macaque, TSN
Leafs
Jeff Marek, MOJO 640
Leafs in 7
The Tipster, Proline
Flyers
Al Strachan, Toronto Sun
Flyers in 5
Terry Koshan, Toronto Sun
Flyers in 6
Lance Hornby, Toronto Sun
Flyers in 6
Mike Zeisberger, Toronto Sun
Leafs in 7
mamajo, X-S Sports Moderator
Leafs

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 22, 2004, 11:45:00 AM

Many people also predicted Ottawa over Toronto.  Ottawa was one of the strongest offensive teams in the league, and it wasn't enough to beat Belfour.  Philly's offense is probably no better than Ottawa's is/was so I'm not afraid there.  What I am worried about is the Leafs won't be able to score enough without Sundin in the lineup.  If the other players can come through the Leafs can do it.  It won't be sweep, I predict at 6 or 7 game series with of course with the Leafs coming out on top.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: HSDEMONZ on April 22, 2004, 02:13:00 PM

I'd like to say SWEEP.. but I think...

LEAFS in 5

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: death_driver_911 on April 25, 2004, 06:12:00 AM

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 26, 2004, 04:04:00 AM

Well they lost again.  It isn't look too good for them although they certainly looked more in control the second game.  They completely owned the 2nd and 3rd periods and it was real nice to see Sundin back in the game.  They've got another 2 days rest before the next game in Toronto and that is going to swing the favor towards the Leafs.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: Spency234 on April 29, 2004, 03:36:00 AM

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 29, 2004, 04:26:00 AM

I was pretty confident for that game.  The 2 days rest definitely helped them more than it helped Philly.  I think I've figured it out - the Leafs just don't play the neutral zone trap very well.  The all defense "sit back and watch" style just doesn't work for them.  Each of their goals last night were breakaways on strong offensive plays.  If they keep that up they can win it.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on April 30, 2004, 06:34:00 PM

Leafs 3
Flyers 1

Whoohoo!  It's a clean slate again.  Best of 3 starting on Sunday.  Momentum has definitely swung toward Toronto as I predicted.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: nemt on May 01, 2004, 05:33:00 AM

I hate Canada.  I hate Canada like I hate Australia.

..but there's one thing I hate more, and that's the filth capital of the world, Philadelphia: Worst City on the Planet...and I've been to Egypt.

Go leafs go.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: nemt on May 01, 2004, 08:23:00 AM

QUOTE (Spency234 @ May 1 2004, 12:11 PM)

nemt: Is there anything you don't hate?

Yeah, but they haven't made the playoffs in almost a decade.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on May 02, 2004, 04:37:00 PM

At 5-1 I had to turn the game off.  Really sad - especially considering this was the first Leafs game being shown in high definition.  Oh the pain of seeing my team crumble in high resolution glory...

There's still hope though.  It's do or die time on Tuesday.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: xbox beat box on May 05, 2004, 04:33:00 AM

Too bad guys!
It hurts!
Hope we meet again in the Battle of Ontario.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: falser on May 06, 2004, 09:23:00 AM

Yup, that was a tough way to end the season.  During the OT period I thought I was going to have a heart attack.  And thus ends another season.  I guess it's time to cheer on Calgary now.

Title: Leafs - The Road to Lord Stanley's Cup
Post by: mamajo on May 08, 2004, 05:14:00 AM